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Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2004 15:52:52 +0100
From: Eric Valette <eric.valette@free.fr>
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To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
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Subject: Re: 2.6.5-rc2-mm2 still does not boot but it progress : seems to
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Andrew Morton wrote:

> Are you using devfs?  If so, please try the below patch (I don't see why,
> but..)

Yes. I use devfs.

Sorry for the delay, I'm back, with a new , more silent, and working 
fan, after a brutal powerdown due to fan failure and CPU overheat... As 
my PC is thre years old, it takes time to find compatible fans...

The machine that boots again but unfortunately I had to hardwire a BIOS 
CMOS reset and therefore BIOS settings have been restored to factory 
default values. I hopefully restored back then to what they where but 
cannot guaranty it 100%.

I applied the patch and get the deadlock is gone *BUT* due to BIOS 
default changed (including one that may impact performance (PIC read 
caching, PCU byte grouping, ...), and the fact that it was probably a 
deadlock due to a window that may have disappearred if I did not restore 
correctly the settings, I cannot gurante that it is the fix that fixed 
the problem.

I hope that Joseph Pingenot that had the same problem can confirm it.
I erased the mail were he was confirming the symptom and I have its 
address no more. Could you double check with him that the patch indeed 
fix the problem?

Thanks for chasing the bug anyway,

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